UK vehicle regulator David Ward says cars sold in Europe are so much safer than in the U.S.

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• bieren@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How much of this is just from Europe not having every suburban dad bro driving a lifted f250 to get a single bag of dirt from Home Depot. Or, soccer mom driving an expedition (f150 wagon) to drive their 1 kid to soccer practice.

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  • themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sounds like it’s both.

    But the reason I think this means alot in favour of regulations, is that in EU over the last 30 years, death rates have dropped in almost every single country. In Portugal it was 80%.

    Europe didnt change car size in that periode, but they did get much better safety standards.

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    • BritishJ@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cars in Europe have got huge in the last 30 years. They certainly did change size.

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  • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My friend had a plant hire company that used a 2007 ford Mondeo to pull the excavators. America is simple for trucks

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• Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have a new car and the pop ups arw infuriating. New Terms and Conditions, new update available and my least favourite the unskippable randomly timed confirmation request that I will follow the rules of the road…this one makes me angry and interupts my driving.

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  • propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Keep in mind, you paid for all of that.

    All that dumb shit increases causes the price to go up more than it costs the company to include.

    i.e. If it costs $100 to add, you’d better believe they’re going to be charging you $300.

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• SW42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Active ISA would be a disaster. My fairly modern car is unable to reliably detect posted or implied speed limits. Sometimes it overshoots by more than double and sometimes it mandates more than 3/4 slower. The problem is the way it is and will have to be done is by means of optical detection. GPS speed measurement can also be surprisingly unreliable. Especially in underground settings like long pass-unders and tunnels.

  If the system would be based on something reliable like local wireless communications between speed limit postings it would be a different issue - would also come with a significant risc of abuse though.

  Also the passive ISA was the first thing I disabled. And I abide by posted speed limits.

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A Tata Punch is a great car name.

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• FauxPseudo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So buy an American make and model car in Europe and have it shipped home.

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